At the foundation, we focus on stimulating lasting change. But we also recognize the need to move with urgency in times of crisis. In the Horn of Africa, the worst drought conditions in decades – exacerbated by political instability – have put more than 11 million people in immediate need of food assistance. The foundation has made two emergency response grants to the region totaling $1.7 million.

Co-funded grants aim to reduce poverty
in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia as world food prices mount

The Department for International Development
(DFID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a coordinated
effort to reduce hunger and poverty in developing countries by supporting
agricultural research projects to help small farmers increase their yields
and incomes.